"Wild Child" Eco-Exploration Camp > Instructor Profile
Tami Hamilton
(Lead Instructor)
Tami Hamilton is a highly respected instructor with many years of experience teaching natural history. On top of her work as a wildlife technician for the Canadian Wildlife Service, Tami is an avid birder, having worked with local and national not-for-profit groups like the Yukon Conservation Society and the Canadian Wildlife Federation. Tami is an environmental practitioner who also holds an outdoor diploma from the National Outdoor Leadership School. Tami holds a wilderness first responder first aid certificate and is a climbing and sea kayaking instructor. Her experience includes work as an outdoor instructor for the Yukon Department of Education as well as contract work for the Department of the Environment, BC Wildlife Federation. In between naturalist work she have been professionally guiding wilderness trips for the past eight years. Tami is a life-long resident of the Yukon, having grown up on the shores of Kluane Lake. The wilderness is where she feels most at home. Tami is passionate about her daughter and the natural and cultural history of the Yukon.
